Blackstone's Guide to the Community Trade Mark

Introduction to the Community trade mark; obtaining registration of a Community trade mark 1 - the basic conditions; obtaining registration of a Community trade mark 2 - registration procedure; features of the Community trade mark system; maintaining and losing a Community trade mark; infringement 1 - rights in a Community trade mark; infringement 2 - limitations, counterclaims and jurisdictions; appeals; transactions in a Community trade mark; the Madrid system; Community collective marks. Appendices: list of contracting parties to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883); list of members of the World Trade Organization; list of contracting parties to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1891); list of contracting parties to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1989); Community trade mark application form; notice of opposition to a CTM; Madrid Protocol application form MM2;